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I have 3 orphek bars and 2 hydra 26hd over my aquarium. Growth & color are great but I’m tired of all the cords & timers
I recently got a Neptune Sky at a good deal.

I feel the sky has a slim blue spectrum, peaking at 450 lacking under and over 450. I am thinking of putting the sky in the middle of the tank & angling my hydra 26 on the corners aimed at opposite bottom corners.

Question, the sky will likely be enough par for my tank but was thinking of setting the hydras at violet 425 UV 410 & 470 to bulk the spectrum? Using my par meter to keep roughly 300ish par top of rocks.

Any advise for color & growth appreciated!
(Sps mostly with LPS bottom corners)

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Yeah, I'd like to see a 420 bump in that spectrum. Are there any other settings?
 

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Yeah, I'd like to see a 420 bump in that spectrum. Are there any other settings?

Channel 1 (called Amber/Green); Channel 2 (called Violet/UV); Channel 3 (called Royal Blue) and Channel 4 (called White).

Shut off the white, amber, and blue channel and you,ll have a ton of 420..on "paper"..
May not have a lot of par...

52 pages to go through to see if anyone has a channel/par/power/color breakdown..
i.e how much par at 420nm at 100% ect. I guess in this case how much par(watts) in the violet/UV channel

Pg 15 has a par table based on the presets.
 
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